"In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" is a popular

Popular music

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 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 written by Ira Schuster

Ira Schuster

Ira Schuster born October 1889 in New York City, worked as a pianist at various publishing companies on Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th Century. Collaborating with notable songwriters of the time, Schuster had a string of hits in the early 1910s, 20s and 30s...

 and Jack Little

Little Jack Little

Jack Little , sometimes credited Little Jack Little, was a British-born American composer, singer, pianist , actor and songwriter whose songs were featured in several movies...

 with lyrics by Joe Young, published in 1932

1932 in music

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. Ted Lewis

Ted Lewis (musician)

Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...

 performed it with his orchestra in the film "The Crooner" in 1932. His version was released as a single and it went to number one, where it remained for 10 weeks.

The Johnny Long Band had a million seller of the song in 1946. This version was a slight revision of the Long band's 1940 version. Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...

 recorded a version in the winter of 1958/1959. Somethin' Smith and the Redheads

Somethin' Smith and the Redheads

Somethin' Smith and the Redheads were an American vocal group doing mostly pop standards in the 1950s. Their biggest hit single was "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" in 1955, which reached #7 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart....

re-charted the song in 1956.

In the contemporary 'stock' dance-band orchestration published by B.Feldman & Co., sole agents for Witmark & Sons (arranged by Frank Skinner) credit is given thus: Words by Joe Young; Music by Little Jack Little and John Siras. Ira Schuster is not given credit. Neither is Ira Schuster mentioned in the credits for the song in the 1940 film "Always A Bride"; nor in the 1951 film "Lullaby of Broadway" starring Doris Day.